Presidency University Kolkata Reviews on Placements, Faculty and Facilities

Not all courses provides placements. But Placements are often common in departments such as Geology, for other departments, faculties can provide letters of recommendations and absorb as PhD scolars after PG completion and satisfactory performance

The course curriculum is pretty relevant from the CSIR NET point of view. For me, the personal decision to choose this course came from the fact that it integrates all parts of biological sciences, instead of focusing on either zoology, botany, physiology or microbiology. Such integrated approach broadens the understanding in the minds of the students. The curriculum focuses on studying from research papers, thus keeping students up-to-date with real life problems and modern approaches to their solutions. Exams of the second semester can come across as a bit hectic because of the much less time span between first semester end and the second end semester. However the internal assessments are placed at the mid and near the end sem. This helps to some extent.

The program curriculum encompasses Biological Sciences as well as it could have been. It is very elaborate comprising every branches from Instrumemtation and Methodologies to Cell Biology, Genetics or Molecular Biology for that matter. You are ought to have three theory papers and two practical and Grand VIVA papers each semester with a total of 4 semesters over two years. In the last semester, you need to prepare your dissertation. The papers include all the basic concepts and their applications and demands hard hours. I believe the syllabus can be relaxed a bit and the number of papers per term expanded and compartmentalised so as to reduce the load of individual papers. All the faculties are very supportive and Friendly and appreciate doubts and queries always.

Almost all of our faculty members are either IITians or PhD scholars, they are very good at teaching although there are some cons about this. The overall impression is satisfactory, I would suggest anyone for this university.

Placements opportunity are actually very good in this college. For UG-courses, students are eligible from the 5th semester and for PG courses, from the 3rd semester onwards, they are eligible for on-campus placements. Many good companies visit campus. All the details are available on the website. The placement cell is very active and ensures a higher number of placements.

I had a knack for Biology. Tried for Medical entrance, didn't make it. So, took the entrance exams of Zoology and Botany at Presidency College. In Zoology, I was behind in the merit list, didn't make it up to the cut. Ended up with Botany. Student to faculty ratio was 1:2, for 26 students in a batch, the Botany department(now Biological Science) had 13 faculty. Obviously, not all faculty took classes simultaneously in a year. Most of the faculty was old school, chalk-blackboard oriented. It changed dramatically in five years I studied till Masters, as Presidency became University. Teachers retired, new foreign return faculty were recruited. Bachelor exams were difficult. Since bachelor in Presidency was under Univerisity of Calcutta, and marks were hard to get. These two changed after college became deemed university. I was there during the transition of the institute, it might look confusing now.

Good : Admission process is quite easy consisting of 1 exam PUMDET, followed by declaration of results on the website, 1 day verification of documents happen. Nice professors, good lab facility, class conditions very good, all equipped with AC and projector, syllabus made in accordance with NET syllabus, course helps to learn new techniques that will be useful in upcoming years(for PhD)Bad : Presidency keeps a quota for old B. Sc students and also takes new students through examination, this creates a divide as ex-students consider themselves to be superior, that creates tension amongst students and sometimes dirty politics as well.

Reputation of this university as a college, it's excellence and updated syllabus, exam pattern, updated teaching pattern, low teacher student ratio, Freedom of speech these are the main reason behind my choosing this university.

I love my college. Our University is near about perfect. Faculty is good, there is so much space and positive environment that we can think of. We as students do and fulfill our duties. Even we fight for any propaganda of our government doing. The only problem we r facing is the communication with our Vice Chancellor. She is very stiff and often deny our demands.

The college does what it promises, that is, quality education. Apart from that, I feel the management could be alot better and organised unlike now. And also the cash counter could be expanded a little since it gets very crowded during fee payment. But otherwise everything else about this college is great.